My Beary Best

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I'm married to my college sweetheart and we're raising two energetic boys! Can anyone relate to that? When I'm not home, I'm usually volunteering my time at our church or school. When I am home, I enjoy long walks with our dog and time with my family. My favorite hobby is rubber stamping and I love it when a card comes together just so. Whatever I do, I try to do my beary best! :)

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Flutterby Wednesday is hosting an Open Challenge this week - Anything Goes as long as your creation has a butterfly or a fairy on it!

I've been going through my old stamp sets lately and have one of the first techniques I learned on my card today too - the chalkboard technique. I stamped the solid image of the butterfly with craft white ink on black cardstock. After I gave it a few minutes to dry, I colored over it randomly with my chalk pastels before stamping the butterfly outline over it. Then the sentiment is stamped directly onto the organdy ribbon.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

It's Danni's 14th Anniversary, so we are celebrating all things love, wedding and anniversary along with your fairy or butterfly at Flutterby Wednesday! We are also happy to announce A Day for Daisies is sponsoring this challenge ~ be sure to check out all the details on how to play along at Flutterby Wednesday.

I used the ADFD image called Flowers in Bottles - printing it twice, so I could fussy cut and pop up the image of the second one. Sentiment is from the Hugs and Kisses set by Paper Makeup Stamps.